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In the past there has been some debate on the board as to whether these style of bowls and dishes really are from Murano, or made by Chalet glass in Canada. I don't think we have yet established a way of telling for definite which they are. (Unless someone around here knows better?)

Anyway, I really like this one. The colours are lovely and the shape really appeals to me, too.

I would say that how much it is 'worth' to you depends on how much you like it, and whether you were buying it to keep or to sell on at a profit.

I have now seen so many experienced sellers paying 'have and to hold' prices and then trying to make a profit on ebay - and losing 80% of what they paid for it. For the most part the loss occurs because they fail to research the piece & list it badly - and paid too much given what similar stuff sold for on ebay.

When something isn't signed, and can't be identified, there's nothing to research .... you buy to keep!

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The colours of the Murano/Chalet? pieces never seem very Murano/Italian to me, including this one. They remind me very much of some of the domestic glassware I find at boot sales and junk shops in the UK. I suspect it dates from the 1950s or 1960s. It's quite nicely made and my thoughts on where tend toward Bohemia or possibly Japan. So I suppose the question is where do the roots of Chalet lie?

Err um well I guess that's my professional streak showing. I was (long ago before computers) a librarian. We can't afford to buy 'book and non-book materials' for a library and find it wasn't suitable, so we research the item first. :oops: I am not an impulsive buyer of anything.

However I also worked in the film & tv industry where you learn to think in millions, so real life can be a challenge.

At this point I am trying to develop an 'eye' for glass, a visual vocabulary. It is difficult to judge 'quality' or even colour, from a book or fuzzy pic on ebay. I don't know how much UK & European glass would have come here, and therefore what can be reasonably expected to surface for sale.

I am moving increasingly to buying Australian art glass from the start of the studio movement here, because I can see it in person, it is more likely to have provenance, and may have a cultural relevance lacking in the nice stuff I see online.